Jeff Andersen

Hey folks, I'm Jeff, one of the founders of Manifold. We're excited to share our new Marketplace-as-a-Service product today. We're taking everything we have learned through operating our own marketplace for developer tools and APIs and offering it to platforms so they can quickly introduce their their own marketplaces with minimal overhead. With our Platform APIs and embeddable Web Components...

How long before Snapchat or Instagram rip these off?

Does bagel account for the length of the case when taking inside measurements?

Are there any real examples of the tech in use and not illustrations (on their site, in the video trailer) or contrived examples (on their blog)?

The etched branding ruins it for me. I really don't want two ads on my laptop (The apple being the first).

It seems to fail at discovering my private organization's repositories. I granted access to the org at the authorization screen, but adding a repository column fails to find the repo (even when typing the full name). And adding columns seems to be a bit buggy in general (menu disappearing and column not adding).

Don't worry, I've got all the Node.js developers covered with this package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/booleans

They make an effort to ensure waterproofing on the zipper, but what about the USB ports? Any concern with the battery and getting water inside? Is there a cover for the ports when they're not in use?

Any thoughts on using it with say, homekit and the new bridge, so that you don't need a mac always on the local network? I assume it just leverages the http API.

Am I a minority in that i bring the full length cable with me and use the standard (North American) three prong?

Be careful with this product. They email every single user of your channel upon addition of the integration. While Slack warns of this during authorization, it only takes one user to provide them with your entire user base's profile info.

So how is the profile data managed? is it actually pulling from linkedin? or how does a user maintain their info.

How is personal data access handled? Presumably the preview of the website could contain sensitive private data that users aren't aware that they're sharing prior to submission.

How does this implementation handle relationships? IIRC Parse is actually using a graph database, where as this is using mongo. Would it not make sense to build this around another graph database, say Neo4j or similar? Have the performance impacts of complex lookups been measured?

@itayher I noticed there is a typo on your ProductHunt popover (the button reads SING UP instead of SIGN UP) The backend as a service space is heating up, and to me it seems like it's the tooling that sets each one of them apart. The offering from Back& seems substantial, intrigue to play around with it.

Random thought: Why hasn't anyone made such an external battery pack for macbooks? Are people more okay with their laptops dying than their phones? do macbook batteries last long enough that people don't see a need? Back in the days when I owned a giant Toshiba laptop I always had a secondary battery.